Leviticus 7:1-38 KJV
1 Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy.
2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar.
3 And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof; the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards,
4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul that is above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away:
5 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a trespass offering.
6 Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.
7 As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have it.
8 And the priest that offereth any man's burnt offering, even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered.
9 And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and all that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the priest's that offereth it.
10 And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one as much as another.
11 And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer unto the LORD.
12 If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.
13 Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.
14 And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation for an heave offering unto the LORD, and it shall be the priest's that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings.
15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until the morning.
16 But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:
17 But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire.
18 And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.
19 And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: and as for the flesh, all that be clean shall eat thereof.
20 But the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that pertain unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
21 Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain unto the LORD, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
22 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
23 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.
24 And the fat of the beast that dieth of itself, and the fat of that which is torn with beasts, may be used in any other use: but ye shall in no wise eat of it.
25 For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, even the soul that eateth it shall be cut off from his people.
26 Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
27 Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
28 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
29 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, He that offereth the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the LORD shall bring his oblation unto the LORD of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.
30 His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD.
31 And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.
32 And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
33 He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for his part.
34 For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by a statute for ever from among the children of Israel.
35 This is the portion of the anointing of Aaron, and of the anointing of his sons, out of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister unto the LORD in the priest's office;
36 Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them, by a statute for ever throughout their generations.
37 This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings;
38 Which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.

Focus today is on verse 37 the burnt offering, meaning the offering of worship first seen at the time with the story of Abel and Cain and then later with Noah when he and his family comes out of the ark. There is several time periods and different types of sacrifices given to the Lord for different reasons. One in a form of worship or honor to God, second sacrifice a time of repentance, or trespass offering where one sinned against God was given and the act of concentrating oneself as offering to God by turning away from sin and then you have the peace offering, or sacrificial offering of praise or gift to God in thanksgiving, this offering was the same as the widow woman giving to God in peace as she gave to Elijah the prophet bread made out of what she had to offered by giving first a cake to the Lord to the Prophet Elijah according to the word of the Lord, and then to make her and her son a cake. The promise was that until the time of no rain was over, her oil and her flour would not run out and it did not. Lord came with a blessing to this woman in this town. A peace offering between God and this woman for whatever reason, God had Elijah to request this peace offering, only to give the woman a blessing in (I Kings 17:8-16).

To speak of the sacrificial laws we must look an realize the sacrifice to God a payment was often subtracted with the offering for the priest to eat or consume as payment or wage for his service. If we think a little longer we see that the fat and different portion of how the meat of preparation is actually still used in the same manner today. First the fat or grease from the animal is used on the pan and then the animal is fried or in today's world it would be baked. The process of how animals were killed often seems foreign when reading it. However I doubt it process has changed that much for the blood was drained out of the animal that was sacrificed and the blood would be splatter on the altar as well as on anything where the meat would be taken to for cooking. If you are a hunter you know you hang your deer meat up to drain the blood out of it, so would lamb and cows be hung to drain the blood out, before cooking. There is a process that blood must be taken out of the meat, before it can be cooked. When you purchase meat in the store you still see meat contains some blood. Yet the process to store, or to keep meat is to protect a person from getting sick. Blood gets on everything in the process sometimes. It can be disgusting if using certain procedures by those who are not use to the process. When you see these big sacrificial gatherings by Israel they were for the purpose of providing meat for large gatherings, often a bulls were used depending on the number of people. Yet Jesus took and broke the fish and bread and feed five thousand. Truly a miracle in itself. Let say you know you going to gathering of 2000 to 5000 people how many hamburgers, if everyone ate a hamburger would you have to take. 5000 quarter pounders at least.

Now that you can understand what the sacrificial law contains in process, imagine not everyone going to eat one burger. I read a few books over the years, more fiction but even fiction has a little bit of reality to it. People on the seashore that got lucky to have whale or large fish to beach upon it shore, could take that animal and feed the whole community with it. We only begin to grasp the idea of how meat source is limited in some areas. It also means if it is not producing it not going to feed the nations of the world, much less a community. Imagine a city in need of food, from rich to poor. Let alone the need for vegetables and fruit. Survival rate in communites that can not take care of their own needs either by bring it in, or producing it themselves is a struggle and causes large famines and people to starve not because always of famine, but because inability to purchase food, or grow food. Not every season is productive when one is a farmer, or raises sources of meat.

If you look at the FDA guidelines on food from meat, vegetables, grains and so forth are they based solely on a healthy diet, or what production in our land and around the world that we buy. It is not based on what shipped in to our nation but on products we do grow ourselves to keep healthy? So we see a guideline based on our ability to survive, not necessarily what each individual body needs. For example you might need certain vitamins someone else seems to be rich in. You might need more vegetables or medicine to help in that area. The point is if you able to eat all the FDA requires you to eat, you might never feel hunger. Diets are then created to help where the FDA fails. Do I need to make my point, I think not.

We see the sacrifices and we think Lord why so many grusome acts on poor animals, failing to see this is not totally about wasting of animal flesh, but a provision for priest and those that will be dining with the priest, or religious teacher. That one that keeps the law and order at these events. However the sacrifice for sin, was burnt offering, offering not consumed but taken outside the camp to be burned. Sounds like garbage was taken out of the city and disposed of.

The sacrifices suppose to be about what allegory, or metaphor for the spiritual process of faith. The consecrated life to God, giving of oneself to God, A time of repentance and a vow to change. A time of offering peace to God in thanksgiving because your heart is right with God. The point being the blood sprinkle being the covering on the altar of sacrifice, the blood sprinkled on you and I as covering or proof of the sacrifice given. Proof of receiving of the sacrifice given. If you got blood on you, your neighbor knows you were at the altar that day at some point and you gave to the sacrifice to the priest. That your sins have been atoned for, your peace offering was received with evidence of the blood as well. The meat had to go through a preservation process to do what, to keep it the length of the feast for two to four days.

Why was the sacrificial no longer necessary, because crimes were handled through a cross, through hanging, through imprisonment and through type of fine. It was no longer handle through the priesthood. The code the laws of Israel changed by the land they were in. The obligation to God never changed. The obligation to obey God and his word never changed. To offer oneself to God was all God ever required us to give. What does it mean to give ourselves to God. It is to give ourselves for the purpose of living according to the will, spirit and ways of God, by obeying the law of love. To love God first and others as yourself second and third to love even yourself.

Christ came and made provision of feeding the five thousand, but never performed a meat sacrifice until he offered himself up on the cross for world sin, your sin and my sins. He was showing us the difference of man's law and God's law. The cost of being God, king and Savior. The world was doing away with God even at the time of the cross, the world could not see it, not even with the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D time frame. What is my point. God showed us Christ might die to man's laws, but he raisable by God's law. He saveable by God's law, He does not have to remain in the grave. God's word can rise again, even if buried. God's law of love still remains when we destroy it. His mercy is enduring. is grace is everlasting to those that love him. His mercy of love to all generation that will seek him and repent. God not hiding we are when we sin against Him. Yet the blood of Jesus is sprinkled on all that believe as a symbol of God's grace. We are sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. God is not wanting physical offering, but the spiritual sacrifice that often displays outwardly in our life of dedication to him. The repentant heart, the turning away from sin and asking forgiveness to God for our imperfection. Yet God created us to make choices, and he wants us to make the choice to follow him and not the world. To follow in the example Christ as set before us following his Father's will. To willingly obey the Father. To obey the world, to follow after the world is evil because it removes God from our daily living.

Today is day 24 of the countdown to thanksgiving, as blinders of the sacrifical law comes off may we thank God for the sacrifice Christ made for you and I as a sin offering and a peace offering, by setting the example of obedience to God's will for his life. Thank God for His salvation plan coming in the form of his dearly begotten Son. That whosoever believed would be saved. Salvation in itself comes with a concentrate life to God/ surrenders our heart to God. Our obedience becoming part of our belief system. Many people believe but how many give their heart to God to follow his word? To surrender their life to the will of God has his Son did. To believe in Jesus and to live our life as God has called us to live in obedience to his word. Yes we will still fail, but our sin is covered by the blood of Jesus once and for all. When we receive God's gift we make peace with God.

Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for calling us to lay down those sacrifical fleshly laws, and pick up the spiritual law of faith in you, your word, and Spirit as the widow woman did at the time of Elijah. For she sacrificed her food, for faith in your word, In Jesus precious name, Amen.

Continual Scripture Study: 1 Kings 17:8-16 KJV
8 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,
9 Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
11 And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.
12 And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
13 And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.
14 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth.
15 And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.
16 And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah.

Hebrews 13:15-21 KJV
15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
18 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.
19 But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Romans 5:1-2 KJV
1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.